Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This replica of the Eole was seen at a ‘ ULM ’ ( microlight ) meeting at Metz in May : sensibly it made no attempt to fly . |
| 2 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 3 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 4 | We 've lived such different lives , Shelley , but the moment we were together it did n't matter at all . |
| 5 | Then add the two together it did n't tally with that . |
| 6 | Furthermore it became against regulations to " unramm " a charge of powder which had mis-fired . |
| 7 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of the happiest are of playing the piano , after I had worked on something for hours , then suddenly it came … it could be the most wonderful thing . |
| 9 | Suddenly it came to Hazel that if Bigwig was dead — and what else could hold him silent in the mud ? — then he himself must get the others away before the dreadful loss could drain their courage and break their spirit — as it would if they stayed by the body . |
| 10 | Suddenly it plunged into the water and , a swift streak , returned to its perch with a silver fish in its dagger-bill . |
| 11 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 12 | When the script was being written , when the film was being filmed , the violence was still very much in vogue ; suddenly it had disappeared . |
| 13 | So suddenly it had come , all they were working for . |
| 14 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 15 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 16 | Suddenly it burst into flame . |
| 17 | Suddenly it rushed at the tree , leapt onto a low branch , and ran up the trunk . |
| 18 | It hovered for a few moments , then suddenly it dropped to the floor with a tinkle and broke in two . |
| 19 | Suddenly it dawned on Ramsay that this flag was considerably larger than that flown by the Regent . |
| 20 | Suddenly it grew small and poky . |
| 21 | Suddenly it saw them and also stopped . |
| 22 | Suddenly it struck me just how much protection my past had given me , particularly the university lecturer bit of it . |
| 23 | Suddenly it struck Wycliffe as absurd . |
| 24 | Suddenly it struck me that there was a flaw in the reasoning that had concentrated police inquiries on this upper part of the tidal Thames — or rather , not so much that there was a flaw in what had been worked out , but that the reasoning was incomplete . |
| 25 | And suddenly it struck Greg that there was something else of possible interest . |
| 26 | Suddenly it seemed all important to get rid of the terrible thing . |
| 27 | To Sam suddenly it seemed as if all the stones were listening and the tall rocks leaning over them . ’ |
| 28 | Suddenly it seemed she had no one to talk to . |
| 29 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 30 | But suddenly it seemed to become very angry with the English visitor , who was talking to it . |